Hofstra dropping football program

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By Mark Schlabach
ESPN.com
Archive Hofstra University is dropping its football team, citing high costs and low interest from the college community. The university, which has fielded a football team for the last 69 years, told ...

Hofstra dropping football program
By Mark Schlabach
ESPN.comArchive Hofstra University is dropping its football team, citing high costs and low interest from the college community. The university, which has fielded a football team for the last 69 years, told its coaching staff Thursday morning that it is dropping the sport, sources told ESPN.com.

The Pride, which has competed in the NCAA's Football Championship Subdivision since 1991, is the second member of the Colonial Athletic Association to drop its football program in the last 10 days. Northeastern University in Boston announced it was dropping its football program after 74 seasons on Nov. 23.

In a statement obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday, university president Stuart Rabinowitz says "the choice was painful but clear."
He says factors include the cost of running the football program and the team's inability to generate significant interest, financial support or attendance.

The decision follows a two-year review of sports spending at Hofstra. Rabinowitz says there are no plans to cut any other sports at the Long Island school.Hofstra has an enrollment of 12,400 students and is located in Hempstead, N.Y., on Long Island.